You
may argue, rant and become indignant about whether or not global warming
manifests across the globe, but it won’t do you any good if what the
scientists tell us, is, in fact, true.

However,
if you think the next added 100 million Americans as well as the next
2.1 billion people added to the planet by 2040 aren’t having an effect,
or there is no such thing as global warming, forget the second part
of this portion and wait until next week for “Part 8” on food production
in America.

In
this section, we discuss “tipping points” as they relate to global
warming. What is a tipping point? Last weekend, the San Diego Chargers
fell behind three touchdowns and a field goal late in the third quarter.
They didn’t stand a chance of winning. But a pass here, a run there,
and a touchdown, then an interception led to a tipping point where
their momentum smashed their opponents and by the end of the fourth
quarter, the Chargers made a last minute score that won the game.

Things
ran smoothly with the planet in 1900, but the internal combustion
engine arrived on the scene. Nothing much happened with 76 million
Americans and 1.6 billion humans around the planet. They burned whale
oil, coal and wood. But today, with billions of cars and 6.5 billion
humans burning billions of gallons of gas, fuel oil, natural gas,
wood and coal, these become the factors in the “tipping point” of
planetary imbalances.

History
shows that scientific advances suffered scurrilous opposition by people
who might benefit. The pope persecuted Galileo for saying the earth
revolved around the sun. Church leaders denounced Harvey for claiming
blood circulated through the body instead of standing still. Newspapers
branded Louis Pasteur a quack for his germ theory. Everyone ‘knew’
the Wright brothers couldn’t get that new fangled flying machine into
the air.

This
week, I presented my program, “THE COMING POPULATION CRISIS IN AMERICA:
AND WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT,” to a fine group of gentlemen in Denver,
Colorado. No one blinked during the 30 minute program. They asked
if the DVD video was available. I told them it would be ready on my
web site by November 30, 2006. However, at the end, two men walked
up and told me never to speak about global warming because they didn’t
want to hear about it because it was patently untrue. I felt the same
gut reaction as Galileo, Pasteur, Lindbergh and Harvey probably suffered.

Again,
distinguished science adviser at Tyndall Centre for Climate Change
Research in the United Kingdom, John Schellnhuber cited a study whereby
Americans fall into “interpretive communities” that share similar
world views. On one end of the spectrum, you’ve got naysayers who,
“Perceive climate change as nonexistent. They are predominantly white,
male, politically conservative, holding pro-individualism, pro-hierarchism,
anti-environmental, carrying highly religious paradigms and rely on
radio as their main news source.”

On
the other side, you’ve got the alarmists. In the middle, you see measured
and reasoned researchers. Me? I’m an educator and messenger. You can
use this information and go to the web sites provided, or you can
blow it off. To a large degree, our media, which corporations control,
brings you bloody killing stories from Iraq, but squashes news about
80 degree days in November in Colorado or dead zones reaching thousands
of square miles in our oceans. As I’ve said in the past, it’s Mark
Twain’s famous statement about ‘silent-assertion’ being the shabbiest
of all lies—perpetrated by politicians and the media.

To
give you an example, the media reports the latest mass killings in
Iraq or Jennifer Anniston’s latest heartbreak, but it won’t tell you
about the ozone hole expanding over Antarctica. It’s another one of
the tipping points.

“We
hear about the connection between ozone depletion, skin cancers and
cataracts, but little about the fact that increased ultraviolet radiation
will destroy oxygen producing phytoplankton (80% of our oxygen comes
from them). Without them turning sunlight into organic life, none
of us would be or will be here.”

Phytoplanktons
create counter weights to another tipping point which is the Antarctic
Circumpolar Current which circulates 34 billion gallons of water around
Antarctica every second.

“When
phytoplanktons die, they sink, taking the oxygen load with them to
the bottom of the ocean. Global warming slows the nutrient upwelling,
affecting the phytoplankton populations in the Pacific, Indian and
Atlantic Oceans,” Schellnhuber said. “As the oceans affect the atmosphere,
the land affects the oceans. Warming will shrink the Sahara by increasing
rainfall. A greener Sahara will emit less airborne desert dust to
seed the oceans and feed the plankton, which in turn suppresses hurricane
formations to fertilize the carbon dioxide eating trees of the Amazon.
Hardly a neighborhood on earth will look the same if Africa tips.”

In
nature’s dance, everything plays its part, whether water, land, air
or fire. The more we offset the natural cycles, the greater our price.
Nature rearranges herself with ruthless dexterity when we create imbalances.
For example: Katrina!

“The
source of Tibet’s thunderstorms is the Asian monsoon, which drives
moisture up the Himalayas,” Schellnhuber said. “A warming climate
could either weaken or strengthen the monsoon. Either effect is potentially
catastrophic for more than half the world’s population adapted to
and reliant on the monsoon. This is another tipping point.”

What
we’re doing to our planet home is described by Garrett Hardin as the
paradox of the “Tragedy of the Commons.” As to the use of the land,
i.e., our planetary resources, if an altruist and a cheater go one-on-one,
the cheater wins consistently, but in the end, everyone loses. You
might call the many facets or “tipping points” of global warming as
the growing common denominators of the “Tragedy of the Commons.”

“In
the end, this recent melting may be caused by the Antarctic Oscillation
a kind of on/off switch affecting pressure gradients in the Southern
Hemisphere,” Julia Whitty reported. “The cooler stratosphere caused
by the ozone hole produces weather changes at ground level now threatening
to turn Antarctica’s icescape into a continent swallowing seascape.
In less than 200 years, armed with fossil fuel burning, humans donned
the acrobat’s tights, wrested hold of the spinning plates and initiated
their own wobbly circus. Nature, impassive and potent, waits to reward
or punish us.”

What
can change our fate? Who or what is the antidote to global warming?
What is the 13th tipping point back toward planetary balance?

You!
You and your actions! Your actions combined with everyone as knowledgeable
as you! Everything you do, counts! Gandhi marched for freedom. Dr.
Martin Luther King spoke of his “dream” for equality. Susan B. Anthony
marched for suffrage for women. Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier
in baseball. Go to www.stopglobalwarming.org for more ideas on how
you can take action. You possess every gift of all your heroes. Common
citizens with uncommon determination change the course of history.
The next president of the United States might be another Teddy Roosevelt,
Lincoln, Jefferson or Madison.

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all got a stake in the outcome. Let’s get busy!

“The
13th tipping point is humanity changing back to a balanced interaction
with earth that will allow our planet home to support all life in
perpetuity.” Sandra Lynn

What
you can do for a better future for your country:

A
republican form of government is not a spectator sport. It means you
must jump in, roll up you sleeves and take personal and collective
action. Of course, you could let a dictator take over and do everything
for you, but that path would give you Cuba, China, North Korea and
other unsavory example

To
stop Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid from giving an amnesty, take action.

1,
America cannot support another 100 million people added to our country
in 34 years, i.e., water crisis, resource depletion, air pollution,
gridlock, loss of quality of life, etc. 2, America cannot support lawbreakers being given citizenship.
3, America must maintain our English language. 4, America wants only legal immigrants who play by the rules
and speak English. 5, America's working poor deserve a chance at jobs taken by
illegals 6, America already has too many people and I support a 10 year
moratorium on all immigration. 7, Americans must maintain our schools for our children. 8, We can no longer tolerate 350,000 birthright citizens (anchor
babies) annually that subtract from our own citizens. 9, Attrition through enforcement by stopping their ability
to wire money home, obtain rental housing and jobs. 10, An amnesty failed in 1986, and it will only be worse today.
We're being displaced out of our jobs and out of our own country.
Call with relentless and never-give-up passion.

What
you can do to change America for the better:

To
stop illegal aliens in your community, you may follow the course of
action by Mayor Louis Barletta of Hazelton, PA. He offers a bomb proof
ordinance that takes business licenses away from those who hire illegals.
He legally halts landlords from renting to illegals. Without work
and without housing, illegals cannot stay in your community. Check
out his web site for instructions: SmallTownDefenders.com

Wooldridge
presents a 45 minute program to colleges, high schools, civic clubs,
church groups and political clubs across America titled: “COMING POPULATION
CRISIS IN AMERICA: WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT.” Go to his website for
further information on booking the program. www.frostywooldridge.com

Frosty
Wooldridge possesses a unique view of the world, cultures and families
in that he has bicycled around the globe 100,000 miles, on six continents
and six times across the United States in the past 30 years. His published
books include: "HANDBOOK FOR TOURING BICYCLISTS" ; “STRIKE THREE! TAKE
YOUR BASE”; “IMMIGRATION’S UNARMED INVASION: DEADLY CONSEQUENCES”; “MOTORCYCLE
ADVENTURE TO ALASKA: INTO THE WIND—A TEEN NOVEL”; “BICYCLING AROUND THE
WORLD: TIRE TRACKS FOR YOUR IMAGINATION”; “AN EXTREME ENCOUNTER: ANTARCTIA.”
His next book: “TILTING THE STATUE OF LIBERTY INTO A SWAMP.” He lives
in Denver, Colorado.

In
nature’s dance, everything plays its part, whether water, land, air or
fire. The more we offset the natural cycles, the greater our price. Nature
rearranges herself with ruthless dexterity when we create imbalances.